7 ESSAY QUESTIONS

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Crime in the United States

Statistics indicate that the rate of criminal activities in the United States has gone up by a considerably high rate . Normally most of the criminal activities in the United States entail a lot of violent incidences . This is so because many people in this country are able to gain access to weapons like firearms at a very early age . Some of the violent crimes that are common in

the United States include rape homicide and robbery with scattered incidents of assault . The rate of crime is measured by the number of criminal incidents that occur within a given period time . Observation made a by a group that carried a survey recently on the rate of crime in the United States in America indicates that the high number of people involved in criminal activities are the young people mostly because of the fact that they easily access firearms at a very early age

Having given a background on the crime in the United States it would be necessary to also focus on ways of measuring crimes in the United States , highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each method . There are various methods that are used in the US to measure crimes . One of them is looking at the rate of crime . As mentioned earlier the rate of crime is the number of crimes that take place within a given period usually a year...